Feeding gas-gejsteeatoes



LOVELESS.

Gas Retort.

No. 17,435. Patented Jun 2, 1857.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

C. B. LOVELESS, OF SYRACUSE, NEW YORK.

FEEDING GAS-GENERATORS.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 17,435, dated June 2, 1857.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, C. B. LOVELESS, of Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Gas Apparatus; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawing, forming part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a top view of the rosin chamber and retort. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the same on 00 m. Fig. X is an elevation of the apparatus. Fig. Y is a top view of the same. Fig. Z is a sectional View of same.

Similar characters of reference in the several figures denote the same part.

The invention here considered refers to the feeding of rosin to the retort for the communicating with feed chamber II by the two pipes a and b, the former leading from bottom of feeder to the lower .portion of the retort, and the latter extending from the top of retort into the feeder and nearly to the top. The retort is situated within the cylinder of the stove and extends downward as shown in the drawing. The pipe leading from the bottom of the feeder has a conical stopper valve V operated from the top by wheel to, so that its rod 1* by screwing into the top of the feeder, shall at the will of the person in charge, open or close the said pipe a. By this construction the melted rosin is let to the retort in such quantities asmay be desired; the pressure of gas on the. top of the contents of chamber H forcing this supply into the retort.

The advantages of the combination aforesaid consist in the facility it gives for filling the supply chamber when the retort is cold, whereby there is no escape of gas from the removal of the rosin vessel for receiving a supply, as is usual in such apparatus, Moreover this construction admits of stopping the generation of gas at any time.

I make no claim to cut off valves broadly considered; but

I claim as new and as an improvement in portable gas apparatus The connection of the feeder H with the retort R by the arrangement of pipes a and b when combined with a cut off valve V, the entire arrangement operating substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto signed my name before two subscribing witnesses.

C. B. LOVELESS. Witnesses:

GEO. PATTEN, JOHN S. HOLLINGSHEAD. 

